6 comments

1. Comment by Israelifolkdancer on September 12, 2009 at 9:00 pm

   A great program. Repentance is needed among the scattered israelites & others as well. In order for Israel to be restored & be regathered again back to their land, there must be repentance & turning back to Yahweh & the Truth. The Kingdom is near & or at hand. This is the final generation that will see Yeshua’s return.

   What a great mission that Yochanan the Immerser (John the Baptist) had.

2. Comment by Shix on September 12, 2009 at 10:47 pm

   Establishing the date, at the time of Obama, The Word of God has come to the people of God! National repentance, a direct dump of the Spirit of the Word of God. Repent and return to the Word of God(can you say that tooo much?) The spirit of Elijah manifested in John the Immerser, first witness to the Messiah. John the counselor teaching to put the Torah commandments to work in our lives. Now the white horse rider gallups to fill the people with the Spirit of Elijah to seperate and keep us on the straight and narrow path.Prophets must get the Word out, no matter how burdensome. Christianity is like the Tin man frozen at the root of the tree, must be annointed to recieve their heart.We must activate the Word to declare His Holiness to all.

3. Comment by PraiseToYah on September 13, 2009 at 1:24 pm

   I have heard this message before in another lesson, but it is amazing how on the second hearing Yah has my focus on something else. The first time I heard the message I thought of National repentance and personal repentance as the primary focus. Now on this hearing the focus is on the separation of the wheat and the chaff and that this process seems to be happening right in my own home. I guess I will relax and allow the separation take place. Thank you Yah and Eliyahu/Dawn!

4. Comment by qanah on September 20, 2009 at 12:15 pm

   Wake up! The day is upon us! It is time to repent! Do it now!
   This tishuva is over soon. On the day of atonement we will stand before Him and recieve His ruling. Let us hope that our preparation has been complete .
   Be immersed.
   Serve YHWH.

5. Comment by gilahinYah on August 25, 2010 at 4:00 pm

   Teshuvah. John hits at the heart of each of these groups. Each ask, “What do I need to do? It is great to hear John give practical ways for each of these groups to fulfill the requirements of teshuvah. It is the same for us all. Each of us must ask Yah, “What must I do? He will give us things that we must repent of, and the practical things we can do to bear fruit.

   Public repentance assumes accountability before others. Actually, it can help people to step forward when others have the courage to publicly repent.

   Separating chaff from the wheat. Another way to look at this. The chaff surrounds the grain. It has no nutritional value. Removing the sin in our lives is like removing chaff. When the chaff is removed, all that is left is the grain that has life in it…

   Jochanan the Immerser was a faithful man who fulfilled his mission. He endured to the end and he earned his place in Yahweh’s kingdom.

6. Comment by donjuls on October 6, 2011 at 9:46 am

   Warning–This post may be classified as “T.M.I.”, too much information. But I must write it.

   Am I Wheat or Chaff? That is the question before me today.

   As I write this post today we are three days before the Day of Atonement. Growing up this didn’t mean much to me. I saw it on the calendar and knew it was a Jewish holiday, not much more than that. Now, today, it means life and death. Perhaps not physical death… but spiritual life and death for me.

   YHWH has instructed me to repent of that which weighs me down and keeps me from fully entering into what He has planned for me. He has told me to repent publicly here.

   In this program Eliyahu speaks of Yochanan rebuking the nation of Israel for their national sin and to be immersed in repentance for the remission of sin. This repentance needed to be done publicly and not in their secret hiding place. YHWH has told me to also repent publicly, here, before my brothers in Messiah.

   From my early teen years I have been plagued with impure sexual thoughts that, at the time, seemed natural. I know now that they violate YHWH’s Torah. As a youth I opened myself up to viewing pornography. A friend had some magazines at his house. I believe they were his older brother’s. The whole event is still rather vivid in my head 40 years later. Not so much the actual photographs but the process of him getting the magazines out of the closet and showing them to me. Looking back I believe this set me up for a life long struggle with this.
   Although I don’t physically view pornography, there are images that have been engraved in my mind that can be summoned up in an instant if I want.

   I hear that people who try heroin, methamphetamine, or crack cocaine can become addicted after one time. This is what I believe happened to me. Medically I can explain how the pleasure centers in the brain are “hard wired” to release certain chemicals that cause a pleasure sensation when we think or do certain things. I believe YHWH designed our bodies and minds that way for His purpose but, it doesn’t excuse the sin nor does it give me license to sin. For some of us the line between what is righteous and what is sin is sometimes very thin, and easy to cross. For others it is a 10 foot wide, 50 foot high concrete wall that is impenetrable.

   He also designed me to have a free will. The ability to choose between good and evil. If that were not the case Moses would not have said to the Israelites, “I set before you life and death, choose life”. I have the ability to resist temptation and to flee from sin. Otherwise YHWH would have said as much and would not condemn me for this thing.

   Over the past 40 years this sin in my thought life has been a struggle, a stronghold in my life. Something that I have pleaded with YHWH, even begged Him, to take from me since accepting Yeshua into my life 24 years ago. I’ve asked Him to reprogram my brain so that there would no longer be this pleasure sensation that is triggered so easily. Here I am still struggling. I could rationalize this thing and say to myself that, you know, many, if not most, men struggle with this. Well you know what, I’m not talking about most men. I’m talking about me and my relationship with YHWH and I don’t want anything to destroy that or block what He wants to do in my life.

   As I was listening to this program this morning and again asking YHWH to take this thing from me, He immediately put in my heart that I needed to confess this here. I sensed that He said to my heart (not audibly), “If your serious about this then confess it on your posting for this program.” My immediate fleshly response was that I wanted to die and to deny that I actually heard what I know I heard Him tell me to do. If I did that, then all this talmidim stuff is would mean nothing. A facade and a fake. All that I rail against, the evil and the church system and the heathens of this world would mean nothing if I denied what I heard. I would be the greatest of hypocrites, the very kind I despise. This is not fun and this is not easy for me. I know that this would be out there for the world to see. I don’t care about that. All I care about is pleasing Him. In the Bible, His Word, He doesn’t hold any punches. He lays all the cards on the table. He doesn’t cover up for “His people” when they are wrong and have sinned. Not individually and not as a nation. If His name is to be attached to me, then I am no different and this thing must be purged from me.

   My initial fear is that it may adversely affect some relationships with my fellow remnant believers. I will leave that matter to YHWH. I can not face Him one more day, let alone at the judgement, with this thing over my head. I need this to be gone from my life and if this is what He requires of me so that I may be cleansed of this burden and this sin, then there it is.

   If I am to be truly Holy, set apart, then this fault of mine, this sin I lay before the cross of the Messiah and I repent of this unholy thing. I purpose in my heart today to leave it there at the cross and separate myself from it. Father, forgive me of this sin that I’ve allowed to plague my mind and these unclean thoughts that are not from you. Wash me clean with the Blood of Yeshua. Give me the strength to resist the evil one when he brings temptation before me, for I know he will. But I also know that I am your child and your love for me is beyond measure, and you will give me all that I need at the time of temptation to resist it, and to remain Holy. You have commanded me to be Holy because you, my Elohim, are Holy. This is the last sinful tie I have to this world. Today, now, it is severed from me.

   Psalm 51 has long been a favorite passage of scripture of mine. Today it brings comfort and joy to my heart. With the Day of Atonement at hand I am grateful for His firm, but loving, rebuke and his direction for my life. I pray that all His children who love His Torah have a wonderful Sukkot.

   Shalom,

   Don

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